The Pagemaster (ENGLISH)

The Pagemaster (James Horner). The adventures of the young Richard and his companions, the books Adventure, Fantasy and Horror, through the imaginary world protruded from the books of the library are narrated by James Horner's music across an entertaining soundtrack. This soundtrack contains a main theme at the level of the Horner's best and a development with abundant thematic with rich orchestration, especially in the tracks of action. Horner's experience in fantastic and infantile thematic is made palpable in the theme of the protagonist, the child Richard, presented at the end of the Main Title and in the track Dad Builds Treehouse. In addition, the main theme is adapted in the song Whatever You Imagine, another excellent adaptation of James Horner's score that demonstrates that he is probably the best in use the score to obtain a song, and examples of it are the unforgettable If We Hold On Together, I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You or My Heart Will Go On.

Apart, the soundtrack includes the song Dream Away, composed by the specialist in creating songs for films Diane Warren, which is featured during the end credits by Babyface and Lisa Stansfield.

The original album was edited in 1994 with 63 minutes of duration. The La La Land edition for the 2015 Christmas provides 7 minutes more and an extensive booklet with an original presentation imitating the form of a book, with notes about the movie and the tracks commented one by one.

The Pagemaster is probably one of the Horner's less visible soundtracks for the public, but an excellent work that the composer developed in the middle of the 90s, one of the composer's better productivity epochs.